Al I'm saying is instead of building upon something that worked,maybe tweak it here and there, they toss it aside. Like I said in before. Earthsiege (some of u may have heard of it, it was suppose to be a Mechwarrior contender)Had it so no single mission ever played the same twice, which was a surprise, cause one mission I started out and broke left around a mountain only to be ambushed, so I was like cool, next time I went right, not only did I get ambushed again but he had help this time, did it again next time nobody at all, come to find out they were waitng for me close to the objective. I played that one op ten times and it played ten different ways. Take that build upon it CoH four Germans in the bunker next time maybe no Germans in the bunker but their waitng for you to come out the other side, next time maybe a german just outside the bunker and tosses in a hand grenade. I think a little code like that adds vast amount of replayability. And it shows developers are working taking advantage of the technology. I rather for a game to be pushed back a month or two and give me a better product than have to wait for a series of patches. I think a patch/update shouldn't be to fix a bug, but something a developer read on the games site forum and said man thats cool why didnt we think of that let's add it in a patch.
Sorry its all about MONEY & MONEY now...they dont give a DAMN,once again GIVE NO DAMN to what we as veteran gamer need but only WHAT CAN BE SOLD AS MUCH AS U CAN... so they always rush the game to be launched & released with so many bugs yet I always found that THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE that want to buy AN UNFINISHED PRODUCT! Can u ever find any game without the need of patch now ? nope...they choose to released the game as fast as u can to gain market & then...try to patched & bugged it by releasing so many patch like what they do with C&C3, FM, etc
Even Micro is much more concerned about Halo then FREELANCER, one of the best space exploration game ever been made...
U must admit & understand that... IN THIS DAY, GAMING IS JUST ABOUT HOW U MAKE YOUR CUSTOMER SPEND MONEY AS MUCH AS YOUR CUSTOMER COULD not about how to make a superb game
Only Blizzard can do that...they need very long time to release a product but when it released, its will surely be a GODLIKE game like WC3, Diablo2, etc